Election date shift receives praise from council members

9:53 PM,
Apr. 18, 2014

Eddie Smotherman

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The campaign promises to move future Murfreesboro elections to August came to fruition through a successful referendum vote this week.

Tuesday's election results showed that 6,512 voters who represented 85.75 percent of the total favored moving the election to August to coincide with the Rutherford County general election starting in 2016.

"The people spoke," said Councilwoman Madelyn Scales Harris, who Tuesday also won re-election to another four-year term. ...